Médiatisation de l’islamophobie sur les réseaux socionumériques chinois : les enjeux ambigus de l’État face au militantisme anti-Islam
Mediatization of Islamophobia on Chinese Social Networks: State Ambiguity in the Face of Anti-Islam Activism
Author(s): Zhuoran MASubject(s): Media studies, Civil Society, Islam studies, Security and defense, Politics and religion, Culture and social structure , Inter-Ethnic Relations, Sociology of Religion, Politics and Identity, Peace and Conflict Studies
Published by: ESSACHESS
Keywords: islamophobia; mediatization; Weibo; China; activism;
Summary/Abstract: This paper aims to analyze the political stakes of media coverage in the relationship between the Chinese state and anti-Islam activism. A corpus of more than 210,000 media and user data (posts, reposts, comments, etc.) has been built from Weibo based on two events: the Kunming train station attack in China in 2014 and the Paris attacks in 2015. This work identifies, through an analysis of media content and users, the main composition of anti-Islam activism, the state's strategy of ambiguity to this activism and a less censored space of debate constructed communicatively in the process of mediatization of Islamophobia.
Journal: ESSACHESS - Journal for Communication Studies
- Issue Year: 15/2022
- Issue No: 30 (2)
- Page Range: 47-71
- Page Count: 25
- Language: French